Mr Ivan GARVALOV

Graduate of the Sofia
State University (now St. Kliment Ohridsky
University), Fine Arts Faculty, 1953;
Specializations: international relations,
international law, political sciences; 1953-1956 -
on the staff of Radio Sofia English Language
Broadcasts;

Joined the Bulgarian Ministry for
Foreign Affairs in 1956; Diplomatic posts: India,
Burma, Indonesia, Egypt, the United Nations (New
York);

Positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
Ambassador and Director of United Nations and
Disarmament Dept., Human Rights Dept., United
Nations and Human Rights Dept.,

First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
(1991)

Diplomatic activities in the
United Nations: Member of the Bulgarian delegations
to the regular sessions of the General Assembly of
the United Nations, Special General Assembly
sessions, and its Main Committees (1971-191);

Represented Bulgaria at the Security Council in
1986-1987;

Member of the Bulgarian delegations to various
United Nations organs dealing with international
security, disarmament, political affairs,
decolonization, human rights, social and
humanitarian affairs, international law;

Member in individual capacity of the UN Committee on
the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (1988 -
2000);

Member, Advisory Committee on the Framework
Convention for the Protection of National
Minorities, Council of Europe (2004-2008), Member
ECRI (2008-2013);

Elected Chairman of United
Nations bodies: UN General Assembly’s Third
Committee of the (1980), United Nations Commission
on Human Rights (1982), UN General Assembly’s
Special Committee on Enhancing the Effectiveness of
the Principle of Non-Use of Force
in International Relations (1983), ECOSOC
Social Committee (1985), United Nations Committee on
the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
(1994, 1995), CERD Contact Group for the World
Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination,
Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (1998-1999);

Took part in the drafting of the following
international human rights instruments:
International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women; International Convention on the Rights of the
Child; Declaration on the Rights of Persons
belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and
Linguistic Minorities; Declaration on Religious
Intolerance; Security Council Resolutions on the
Iran-Iraq War (1986-1987); Final Document of the
OSCE Meeting of Human Dimensions (Copenhagen 1990);

Co-author of the following UN documents: On Human Rights
Education, doc. E/C.12/1994/WP.28; Measures to
Eliminate Racial Discrimination and Ethnic Violence;
Early-Warning Systems and Urgent Actions, doc. HR/GVA/DR/SEM/1999/BP.2,
dated 29 November 1999; Preventing Genocide,
doc. E/CN.4/1999/WG.1/BP.9, for the needs of the
Preparatory Committee for the World Conference
against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia
and Related Intolerance (1999);
Joint Working Paper on Article 7 of the
International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination (E/CN.4/Sub.
2/1998/4, 10 June 1998);

Publications:

“United Nations, Centre for Possible Missions”
(Sofia, 2005); “Right of Self-Determination of
Peoples” (Sofia, 2008); “60th Anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (2008);
Decolonization as the greatest success of the United
Nations” (2009), ‘50 years since Bulgaria’s
admission to the United Nations’ (2010).

Lecturer and Member of the National Advisory Council
of the Diplomatic Institute of the Bulgarian Foreign
Ministry.